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...vital processes. The greater the difference in electrical potential, the greater energy the body possesses. Work spends it. Fatigue makes the difference less. Sleep restores it. With death the difference of potential vanishes. The brain cells have the most positive electricity, the liver cells the most negative. Emotions are stimuli releasing currents of electricity along certain paths...
...Biological Club will hold a meeting at 4.45 o'clock this afternoon in Room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. A. E. Hopkins 1G. will speak on "Recent Experiments on Olfactory Stimuli in Amphibians" and J. V. Leech 1G. on "Recent Experiments on the Control of Head-Formation in Planarians...
...there is a very real danger that the furnishing of other and really adventitious stimuli will result in encouraging a certain unworthy charlatanism. For my part 1 believe that, as things are, scholarship receives all the "recognition" that it deserves or wants. Your true scholar has always been, and doubtless will continue to be, content to keep the noiseless tenor of his way without (to mix the quotations) making himself a motley to the view. F. N. ARUIN...
...should entirely crowd out social, intellectual, educational service, the "levelling up" of the nation. College men are most fitted to be the motive forces for better conditions by heritage, endowment and acquisition; an equipment that must, however, teach them to get the most out of living to be stimuli for advancement in the communities of the nation...
Granted that to a large extent intellectual ability is dependent upon natural alertness and sensitiveness to intellectual stimuli, we believe that this superiority in any individual is to be explained in his attitude toward such work. A college man with a good mind may turn his energy to other things; he may become efficient and productive in other ways, yet remain intellectually sterile. One of the greatest dangers of American college life is the undue importance attached to honors to be won apart from studies. In concentration lies the secret of success and for concentration genuine intellectual interest amounting...